<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Paul<div><br></div><div>While Facebook could take the silo approach, they are interested in seeing how open standards could be used. They participated in the Open Web Foundation launch and when I was at their office earlier this week, they expressed serious interest in OpenID. See my blog post (which had to be run by them as it was an NDA meeting).</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://identity20.com/?p=155">http://identity20.com/?p=155</a></div><div><br></div><div>Given the state of OpenID tech right now, I do not think it could be used to solve what they wanted to solve in a way that would deliver the clean user experience they desired -- but I would be happily proved wrong! ( I do think they could have used OAuth though)</div><div><br></div><div>As I mention in my post, this is an opportunity for the community to work with Facebook. </div><div><br></div><div>Myself, I think the technology needs to be enhanced and evolved so that it has features that Facebook Connect does not have in addition to the existing features.</div><div><br></div><div>If the community just sits back and says that all the bits are there -- just use them -- then this community is no different from other SSO communities that have told the creators of OpenID that they were reinventing the wheel. </div><div><br></div><div>-- Dick</div><div><br><div><div>On 1-Aug-08, at 2:09 PM, Paul Trevithick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:11pt">The problem is that this isn’t a technical issue. FB currently has no business incentive to use open technologies that, among many other things, would allow users to be able to retrieve and store their own profile data and friends lists (as currently violates the FB TOS). They are still enjoying the virtuous cycle of the closed mega silos: more users begets more users. OTOH FB will open up if and when there’s a reason to do so. But for now, and for a good while, I’d say FB isn’t a good prospect for open, user-centric technologies.<br> <br> Paul<br> <br> On 8/1/08 3:28 PM, "Allen Tom" <<a href="atom@yahoo-inc.com">atom@yahoo-inc.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br> </span></font><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:11pt">David Recordon wrote:<br> > Is there really anything that Facebook did that couldn't be<br> > accomplished with OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute<br> > Exchange?<br> Facebook Connect has a nice set of libraries/apis that RPs can just drop<br> in relatively easily on their site. The JS libraries implement much of<br> the sign in flow (displaying inline sign-in forms as well as a<br> permissions screen) which means that the FB Connect user experience is<br> consistent across all RPs.<br> <br> They also seem to have implemented Single Sign Out, because signing out<br> of FB seems to also sign you out of the RP.<br> <br> Additionally, FB Connect also authorizes the RP to write to the user's<br> FB News Feed, so there's an authorization component as well. The<br> authorization seems to expire when the browser session is closed, so<br> it's not quite like OAuth.<br> <br> And finally, FB Connect requires that the RP pre-register with FB to get<br> an api key which presumably allows FB to authenticate the RP, and also<br> gives FB the ability block the RP if necessary.<br> <br> Unlike the OpenID/OAuth/AX services currently in the wild, the FB<br> Connect stack is highly integrated, with built in privacy controls and a<br> standard UI. But as you correctly stated, I believe most, if not all, of<br> the stack could have been built upon open standards.<br> <br> Allen<br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> general mailing list<br> <a href="general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br> <a href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general</a><br> <br> </span></font></blockquote> </div> _______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br>http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>